How cancer takes over your brain and steals motivation

How cancer takes over your brain and steals motivation

Apathy is found in almost 80 per cent of late-stage cancer patients. A new study, conducted on mice reveals that apathy is not a byproduct of physical decline in patients caused due to cancer but actually an integral part of the disease. Doctors and experts have also found a way to tackle it

Cancer ignores the boundary between physical and psychological symptoms, using inflammation to commandeer the very circuits that drive a patient’s will to act. File image/AP